My favorite place is probably my camp, my dance academy, or the Indiana Dunes. My camp, Circle Pines, is a beautiful area in Michigan, a state in the United States. It is SO much fun! There is canoing, friendship bracelets, fire building, and trail jogs, and work projects. You make a huge amount of friends, and it is really nice because everyone likes you for who you are, not what clothes you where or how much money you have. My dance academy, the Academy of Movement and Music, is one of my favorite places because I spend a huge amount of time there (I'm there almost every day for 2-4 hours). I do ballet, jazz, modern, and pointe- pointe is dancing on the tips of your toes in special shoes with hardended ends called pointe shoes- the picture on the left is one of pointe shoes. The Indiana (another State) Dunes are so incredible! Dunes are tall, TALL hills of sand. It's so much fun climbing them! They are on the beach, so I like going swimming too. Sometimes the little fish come right up to your feet if you stand still! It's really relaxing, and I can be lazy then.The best part is at night, when we will make a hole in the sand and make a fire and roast marshmellows. When we go to sleep, it's really relaxing because you can hear the waves washing up apon the shore.

Ariel, Julian Middle School, USA